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The Migrant Education Program - Even Start provides competitive grants to support family literacy projects for migrant families. Eligible applicants include state education agencies, local education agencies serving many migrant students, and nonprofit organizations. Funded projects provide early childhood education, adult education including English classes, parenting education, and interactive family literacy activities. In fiscal year 2007, the program provided continuation awards totaling $2.37 million to 23 recipients.

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The Migrant Education Program - Even Start provides competitive grants to support family literacy projects for migrant families. Eligible applicants include state education agencies, local education agencies serving many migrant students, and nonprofit organizations. Funded projects provide early childhood education, adult education including English classes, parenting education, and interactive family literacy activities. In fiscal year 2007, the program provided continuation awards totaling $2.37 million to 23 recipients.

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Topical Heading

Migrant Education
Program Title

Migrant Education Program—Even Start


Also Known as
Migrant Education Even Start
CFDA # (or ED #)
84.214A
Administering Office
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
Who May Apply (by category)
Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), Local Education Agencies (LEAs), Nonprofit Organizations, Other
Organizations and/or Agencies, State Education Agencies (SEAs)
Who May Apply (specifically)
Any entity is eligible to apply. However, the U.S. Department of Education specifically invites applications
from SEAs that administer migrant education programs, LEAs that enroll a high percentage of migrant students,
and nonprofit community-based organizations that work with migrant families.
Current Competitions
None. FY 2007 funds support continuation awards.
Type of Assistance (by category)
Discretionary/Competitive Grants
Appropriations
Fiscal Year 2005 $7,878,315
Fiscal Year 2006 $2,970,000
Fiscal Year 2007 $2,378,483

Note: This is one of several programs funded from a 5 percent set-aside from the appropriation for the Even Start
program (# 84.213). (The set-aside is 5 percent when the Even Start appropriation is $200 million and below, and 6
percent when the appropriation is above $200 million.) See the Even Start program, also under the topical heading
"Reading."

Fiscal Year 2007 Awards Information


Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice.

Number of New Awards Anticipated: 0

Number of Continuation Awards: 23


Average Continuation Award: $342,181
Range of Continuation Awards: $140,000–$500,000
Legislative Citation
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended, Title I, Part B, Subpart 3, Sec. 1232(a); 20
U.S.C. 6381a(a)
Program Regulations
EDGAR, 34 CFR 200.80
Program Description
This program is designed to help break the cycle of poverty and improve the literacy of participating migrant
families by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education
into a unified family literacy program.
Types of Projects
This program supports family literacy projects. Projects provide for: early childhood education; adult literacy (adult
basic and secondary-level education and instruction for limited English proficient [LEP] individuals); parenting
education; and interactive parent-child literacy activities for participating families, often through other entities
education; and interactive parent-child literacy activities for participating families, often through other entities
providing these services, such as government agencies, colleges and universities, public schools, Head Start
programs, and other public and private community-based groups. Projects provide staff training and support
services, such as child care and transportation, when unavailable from other sources, to enable participation in core
education activities.
Education Level (by category)
Adult, Early Childhood, Middle School, Secondary
Education Level (specifically)
Children from birth through age 7 who meet the definitions of a migratory child and their parents who meet the
definitions of migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishers in 34 CFR 200.80.
Subject Index
Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Art, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Family Involvement, Parent
Participation
Contact Information
Name DonnaMarie Fekete
E-mail Address [email protected]
Mailing Address U.S. Department of Education, OESE
Office of Migrant Education
Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building
400 Maryland Ave. S.W., Rm. 3E313
Washington, DC 20202-6135
Telephone 202-260-2815
Toll-free Telephone 1-800-827-5327 or 1-800-USA-LEARN
Fax 202-205-0089
Links to Related Web Sites
http://www.ed.gov/programs/mep/index.html

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